Household and medical recipes

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 21254D [RESTRICTED ACCESS]
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004937235
  • Dates of Creation
    • [17 cent., third ¼]-[18 cent., third ¼]
  • Language of Material
    • English English.
  • Physical Description
    • 125 ff. (ff. 1-40 have old foliation 3-41 and one unfoliated page between ff. 22 and 23; ff. 41-65 have old pagination 1-51, pp. 41-42 are missing) ; 275 x 180 mm.
      Re-bound in white vellum at NLW in 1975; original limp vellum cover preserved.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)
      DE/SOUTH SA/OPEN SHELVES

Scope and Content

A volume of household and medical recipes written at various times from the mid-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth centuries. There are two mid-seventeenth century hands (A and B) with additions in many late seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century hands. Hand A runs from ff. 1-9, and hand B from ff. 9-12, 20-23 verso, 26-40, 73-74 verso, 77, 83 recto-verso, 87 verso-113 with additions on the paste-down on the inside of the front cover and ff. 1 verso, 6 verso, 8 recto-verso.
Papers found loose in the manuscript have been brought together at the end (ff. 118-125). These include a receipt (dated Mar. 26, 1753) to Mrs A. Hay for payment for a neglige cap, signed D. W. Healey (f. 123), and an undated letter from T. Knight addressed to Mrs Nancy Lloyd at Nanney (ff. 124-125).

Access Information

Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 21254D [RESTRICTED ACCESS].

Alternative Form Available

Available on microfilm at the Library.

Custodial History

From the Denbighshire-Flintshire-Shropshire area. Many personal names are mentioned from whom the recipes have been acquired. Hand A records only one name: Doctor Bisbon (f. 6 verso). Hand B attributes many of the recipes to relatives: 'My Aunt Rauenscroft' (f. 10); 'Sis. Franks' (ff. 13 verso, 14 verso, 26); 'Cosen Doll. Rauenscroft' (f. 21); 'Cosen Thel.' (ff. 22, 100, 106 verso); 'My Cosen Bagenall' (ff. 95, 99); 'My Aunt Lloyd' (f. 99). A selection of the other names written by Hand B is: Lady Teringham (f. 9 verso); Lady Manchester (f. 10); Lady Lloyd (ff. 11, 12, 93, 95); Lady Trevor (ff. 12, 91); Lady Cary (f. 14 verso); Mrs Broughton (ff. 32, 74 verso, 90 verso), Lady Garrad (f. 38 verso); Duchess of Queensburow (f. 72 verso) Cornett Bagott (f. 83 recto-verso); Lady Georges (f. 87 verso); Lady Corbitt (f. 88); Mrs Willmotte (f. 88 verso); Mrs Warbeston (f. 89 verso); Mrs Crapley (f. 91 verso); Lady Veres (f. 92 verso); Lady Sakuills (f. 93); Lady Fisher (ff. 102 verso, 103 verso); Lady Dickys (f. 108); Sir Thomas Hanmer (f. 113). Among the names written by the later hands are: Mrs Bulstrod (f. 24); Lady Hanmer (f. 25); Mrs Anne Lloyd, (f. 28); Mrs Dedd (f. 40 verso); Madam Hill of Hill (f. 44); Dr Butler (ff. 47, 71 verso); Lady Bagett (f. 49 verso); Sir Charles Scarborough (f. 83 verso); Mr Millington (f. 76); Lady Gerrard (f. 76 verso); Mrs Cray (f. 106); Mr Lupton (f. 113 verso). Lot 1514 in the Mostyn sale at Christie’s, 24 Oct. 1974.

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